THE ANTIQUITIES 
[LETT. 
also soon sold to the Bishop of Winchester some adjoining 
grounds, through which our stream passes, that the priory might 
be accommodated with a mill, which was a common necessary 
appendage to every manor : he also allowed access to these lands 
by a road for carts and waggons. — " Jacobus de Nortun concedit 
Petro Winton episcopo totum cursum aque que descendit de 
Molendino de Durton, usq ; ad boscum Will. Mauduit, et 
croft am terre vocat : Edriche croft, cum extensione ejusdem et 
abuttamentis ; ad fundandam domum religiosam de ordine Sti. 
Augustini. Concedit etiam viam ad carros, et caretas," &c. 
This vale, down \^•hich runs the brook, is now called the Long 
Lithe, or Lythe. Bating the following particular expression, 
this grant runs much in the style of the former : " Dedit mihi 
episcopus predictus triginta quinque marcas argenti ad me 
acquietandum versus Jicda^os." — That is, " The bishop advanced 
me thirty-five marks of silver to pay my debts to the Jews," 
who were then the only lenders of money. 
Finding himself still straitened for room, the founder 
applied to his royal master, Henry, who was graciously pleased 
to bestow certain lands in the manor at Selborne on the new 
priory of his favourite minister. These grounds had been the 
j^roperty of Stephen de Lucy ; and, abutting upon the narrow 
limits of the convent, became a very commodious and agreeable 
acquisition. This grant, I find, was made on March the 9th, in 
the eighteenth year of Henry, viz. 1234, being two years after 
the foundation of the monastery. The royal donor bestowed 
his favour with a good grace, by adding to it almost every 
immunity and privilege that could have been specified in the 
law-language of the times. — " Quare volumus prior, &c., habeant 
totam terram, &c., cum omnibus libertatibus in bosco et piano, 
in viis et semitis, pratis et pascuis ; aquis et piscariis ; infra 
burgum, et extra burgum cum soka et saca, Thol et Tliem, 
Infangenethef et Utfangenethef, et hamsocne et blodwite, et 
pecunia que dari solet pro murdro et forstal, et flemenestrick, 
et cum quietancia de omni scotto et geldo, et de omnibus 
auxiliis regum, vice comitum, et omn : ministralium suorum ; 
et hidagio et exercitibus, et scutagiis, et tallagiis, et shiris et 
hundredis, et placitis et querelis, et warda et wardpeny, et 
